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Front lines no place for women

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
03/14/2013 08:39:24 AM EDT

Wartime combat duty for women on the "front lines" with Army, Navy or Marine Corps troops is just plain wrong.

Consider this, for centuries every young boy has been taught by their parents to always protect women and children in harm's way. This fact has been rubber-stamped into the norm of our society. How archaic and senseless will it become when fathers (stay-at-home) have to explain to their little children that mother or sister is leaving to fight the war? This is preposterous on so many levels, in my opinion.

Perhaps, Phyllis Schafly (author, anti-feminist and conservative activist) has it right. She said recently in her famous Eagle Forum, "Much of the demand for females in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and/or promotions."

Women have always done a superb job performing various supportive roles while serving in uniform. Must this all change now? In turn, Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross and Civil War hero once said, "I am well and strong and young enough to go to the front. But, if I cannot go, then; I'll help our solders."

To conclude, hats off to the brave men and women service members, veterans and military families who have served so well for us.

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